Re: Shares Program

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Thanks Steve,

Do you reckon you could help me out with any code?

Or anyone?

Im a bit of a beginner and im finding tough to implement the below?

Still trying

Thanks in advnace to steve or anyone else that can help

--- In helpwithvb%40yahoogroups.com">helpwithvbyahoogroups.com, Steve Trigero <seecwriter...>
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&gt; I suggest using two timers and the random number generator function
in VB6.
>; The function name is probably rand(), or something like it. If it's
like most
> software generated random number generators, it will give you a
random
> value between 0 and .1. Just multiply the result by 100 and add it
to your price.
&gt; You can AND it will some other value to limit the range something
less.
> One timer would go off every two seconds to come up with a random
number
> to add to your price, and then set the font color to red and start
the second
> timer to timeout in 1-second. When it times out it turns the font
back to the
> original color.
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> Steve
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> To: helpwithvb%40yahoogroups.com">helpwithvbyahoogroups.com
&gt; Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2007 9:53:20 AM
> Subject: [helpwithvb] Shares Program
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